Don't know if this was already posted (and I don't care)..but... We are closer to January 1st, 2030 than we are to December 31st, 1998.
Fuck all ya. I'm 40 tomorrow and had to drag a firm mattress from an upstairs bedroom for my back. FUCK
I miss great news personalities like Walter Cronkite. http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/10/5411754/in-our-news-mediatwitter-culture.html
I remember a time when there were payphones all over the place. I saw one a few weeks ago at a shopping mall; the first one I've seen in maybe 5 years. I remember when phones had to be connected to the wall. If you had a long enough cord, you could pace or go in the next room while on the phone. I remember when TV screens and computer monitors were these big clunky picture (cathode ray) tubes. Today, most everything is flat screen. I remember when mostly secretaries used typewriters to create or respond to correspondence. And I bet jlprk still uses one of these:
I remember all that too, Denny. Also vinyl records (which I still have). And a time when interracial marriage and birth control were illegal.
There's probably a whole generation of people who've never seen those things. "You had phones attached to the wall? GTFO!"
I remember growing up, my parents had to rent their phones, and they had two. A wall phone (yellow) and a desk phone (green).
this thread should be about shits that make you feel old, because I have those all the time. Also my morning breakfast of vitamins, fiber, fish oils and medicines make me feel old. I get all misty eyed for a day when frosted flakes weren't a dessert.
I refused to buy a calculator in college because I saw too many people forget how to do simple arithmetic. I did have a circular slide rule for use in chemistry. Even now, whenever I use a calculator I double check with pencil & paper - I trust my brain more than my clumsy fingers! Barack Obama is the first president younger than me. Maris, speaking of telephones, remember they used to have to be installed, you'd move and be incommunicado until the phone company arrived. I wonder what today's young people would think of that 70s song, Telephone Man? The woman singing in double entendres about her phone being installed?
Forrest Gump, as well as Jurassic Park are the two oldest movies i remember watching when they were new when i was a very young kid. I'm feeling pretty old now.
Oldest movie I remember watching was empire strikes back. Here is an old moment I had recently. My dad insists I take his car, which is s Buick. I have my car parked outside my house on a hill. All of a sudden, I hear this loud noise. I look outside and I see some kid who is to my left and probably 10 years old running up the hill with his longboard to catch up with his dad who is crossing the street to my right. I go outside and look at the front of my dads car and there is this huge dent near the license plate that wasn't there before. I am not exactly sure how the longboard would have made the dent, but I can't explain the evidence before me. I get in my car and chase them down, yelling at them for hitting my car. They profusely deny they touched my car. I cant really proove anything so I speed off. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I am visiting with my dad and I tell him the story, and he tells me that he hit something a while back and caused the dent. So, there you have it. Yelling at a 10 year old kid on a skateboard for hitting my Buick, and he didn't even do anything wrong.
